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OUR GOAL is to look for new and improved ways to achieve more sentence variety.
Each sentence composing lesson will introduce you to a new phrase that will enable you to experiment with combining and expanding sentences. Each new lesson will reinforce correct punctuation as well.
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The APPOSITIVE PHRASE Definition: An appositive renames a noun or pronoun. An appositive phrase is a group of words that renames or identifies an adjacent noun or pronoun. Tips: Most, but not all appositive phrases, begin with “a”, “an”, or “the”.
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Examples Sentence without an appositive: Matilda was crying in her room. Sentence with an appositive. Matilda, the youngest, was crying in her room. Sentence with an appositive phrase: Matilda, the youngest child in the family, was crying in her room.
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His car stood in the driveway.
Let’s look at a basic sentence: His car stood in the driveway. As a reader, I am curious about the car. How can the author satisfy that curiosity?
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*Notice how the writer creates drama by
By adding an appositive phrase, the writer gives the reader a clearer way to identify the car. His car, a perfectly maintained 1960 Thunderbird, stood in the driveway. *Notice how the writer creates drama by interrupting the subject and the verb. * Notice how the appositive phrase is wrapped in commas.
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* Notice how both appositive phrases are wrapped
The writer can even add more than one appositive phrase to identify the car. His car, a perfectly maintained 1960 Thunderbird, his pride and joy, stood in the driveway. *Notice how the writer gives even more information by adding the second appositive phrase. * Notice how both appositive phrases are wrapped in commas.
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As a subject-Verb Split:
Remember: Each new phrase can be added to a sentence in one of three ways: As a sentence opener: One of eleven brothers and sisters, Harriet was a moody, willful child. As a subject-Verb Split: His car, a perfectly maintained 1960 Thunderbird that was his pride and joy, stood in the driveway. As a sentence Closer: Among the company was a lawyer, a young man of about twenty-five.
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